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The contrast between the bon vivant Hersh that the country has come to know in the last 200 days through photos and the thin, scared, and dour Hersh in Wednesday’s video was startling.
There was no escaping that this was a Passover night different from all other Passover nights.
Ivy League campuses are now too hostile to Jewish students; we need to take the cue and build new, safe institutions.
We have always known that we cannot be protected by anyone besides ourselves, which is why an overwhelming 95% of the Jewish community are Zionists.
A major part of our problem is the structure of our parliamentary system which makes ministerial assignments a reward for party loyalty and support for the ruling coalition.
How can it be that an Israeli professor was seemingly suspended over complaints that no one has heard publicly, while the anti-Israel students calling for the genocide of Jews are treated the same?
To turn the tables of the current Arab-Israel war the above understandings have to be explicitly reoriented into action.
To transform the North and South into regions that people are drawn to, a comprehensive plan is needed.
On Passover, when we sit down to the Seder table, we declare together, “In every generation, they rise against us to annihilate us, but the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hands.”
This unfortunate reality made me leave Europe with a bad taste in my mouth. I was honored to have helped their son become a full member of the Jewish community, but I worried for his future.
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